Current Affiliates

Celesta  Albonetti, Director (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin)

Currently Attached to: University of Iowa, Department of Sociology
Areas of Specialization: Discretionary decision-making in federal and state adjudication, ethnic and gender differences in sentencing, criminological theories, recidivism.
   

David  Baldus (J.D., LL.M. Yale University)

Currently Attached to: University of Iowa, College of Law
Areas of Specialization: Capital punishment, criminal law, anti-discrimination law.
   

Robert  Baller (Ph.D., SUNY Albany)

Currently Attached to: University of Iowa, Department of Sociology
Areas of Specialization: Criminology, demography and spatial analysis, research methods.
   

Chana  Barron (Graduate Student)

Currently Attached to: University of Iowa, Department of Sociology
Areas of Specialization: Sociology of law and theory.
   

Mary  Dudziak (J.D., Ph.D., Yale University)

Currently Attached to: University of Iowa, College of Law
Areas of Specialization: Civil rights history, impact of foreign affairs on postwar civil rights policy, constitutional history.
   

Karen  Heimer (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin)

Currently Attached to: University of Iowa, Department of Sociology
Areas of Specialization: Criminological theories, gender differences in crime and social control, relationship between criminal punishment, economy and politics, prison riots.
   

Kevin  Leicht (Ph.D., Indiana University)

Currently Attached to: University of Iowa, Department of Sociology
Areas of Specialization: The legal profession, law and public policy, organizational stratification, gender inequality, the politics of state policy.
   

Mark  Osiel (J.D., Ph.D., Harvard University)

Currently Attached to: University of Iowa, College of Law
Areas of Specialization: Law of armed conflict, legal profession, comparative historical sociology.
   

Kelly  Richardson (Graduate Student)

Currently Attached to: University of Iowa, Department of Sociology
Areas of Specialization: Crime, delinquency, research methods
   

Sarah  Spilman (Graduate Student)

Currently Attached to: University of Iowa, Department of Sociology
Areas of Specialization: Criminology, Family, Victimization, Stratification
   

Allen  Steinberg (Ph.D., Columbia University)

Currently Attached to: University of Iowa, Department of History
Areas of Specialization: American social, legal, and urban history, cultural conflict in modern America.
   

María  Vélez (Ph.D., Ohio State University)

Currently Attached to: University of Iowa, Department of Sociology
Areas of Specialization: The interrelationships among crime, disadvantage, and race/ethnicity; linking neighborhood crime and victimization to city political processes; and multi-level models of crime and victimization.
   

Stacy  Wittrock (Graduate Student)

Currently Attached to: University of Iowa, Department of Sociology
Areas of Specialization: Crime, law, social control, stratification, and gender
   

Matthew  Zevenbergen (Graduate Student)

Currently Attached to: University of Iowa, Department of Sociology
Areas of Specialization: Crime, law, political sociology